Rania Mamoun is a Sudanese activist and writer of poetry, fiction, and nonfiction. She completed Something Evergreen Called Life, a poetry manuscript written during COVID-19 quarantine, translated into English by Yasmine Seale and published by Action Books in March 2023. Rania has published two novels to great international acclaim, Green Flash and Son of the Sun, and Thirteen Months of Sunrise, a short story collection shortlisted for the 2020 Warwick Prize for Women in Translation. In January 2024, she published her second book since she came to the US, A Woman Alone under the Neem Tree in Arabic, by Elmosawarat Publishing. Her writing has appeared in English, Korean, French, and Spanish translation. She is a writer-in-residence at City of Asylum Pittsburgh since 2019.
